dug up some old stuff. an ode to old.

This was a large, somewhat unwieldy internet-based blues collaboration from several years back. I wrote and sang the lyric. AE pub collaboration!....lyrics and vocals by Tangmo harmonica by Tony(T.D. Brown)...bed by Scott(Riffmaster)....guitarst…

Lyrics are from a poem inspired by the Picasso painting of the same name, written by Trevor Lewis.

My 100th upload to Alonetone! I played a pretty random arpeggio which I arranged into 3 versions of medium notes, long notes, and short notes followed by a gap. I cloned these version and transposed them up and down one octave respectively…

A long meditation/wank. This weeks guitar lesson we started looking at melodic minor modes. I went home and started practicing scales. Wasn't long before I got stuck on Dorian flat 2. So I fired up the looper and recorded a session. Funny…

An ambient guitar piece done rather quickly, warts and all. Stems from ideas I've been developing on my new JamMan looper pedal (catnip for guitarists if there ever was such a thing).

Today, the Ableton folks surprised us all with the release of 8.2 which came with a new plugin called Amp. Of course, that meant a bunch of presets to explore... Without aiming to do anything, I happened on these four presets (played simultaneously…

A quick little indulgence. Got a new toy this week (valhalla shimmer). Just had to totally overuse it. Now to eat some chocolate.

A test track of sorts. I typically mix a track, bounce it out to my ipod and then go for a drive. The stereo in my truck is kind of boomy and if I get the bass wrong, I'll hear about it. This has been a matter of a certain amount of guesswork…

Each time I sit down to learn something about Logic, I end up getting distracted and creating some kind of track... This one uses EFM1 -> Delay Designer -> Live Cut Some drums through similar craziness and finally me playing some pads and…